Valuing Vegetation

Can a value be put on vegetation, especially trees?

This question can be approached from a number of points of view. Timber harvesters have a view, climate scientists have a view, air quality investigators have a view, people who fear soil erosion have a view ...  and so on.

What view do you have?

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Here is a link to an article about trees in Melbourne:
https://theconversation.com/loving-emails-show-theres-more-to-trees-than-ecosystem-services-37983

So the value of vegetation is a complex  and worldwide and it goes beyond the human species.

Habitat.

                                                                                   
                                                                                   

Even dead trees are a forest resource

Nesting opportunities for birds and mammals.
A carbon store in a world of increasingly turbulent climate.

















Australia is the only continent with black cockatoos. Our local variety is shown. Here's a link to all five types:  WWF on Black Cockatoos

We have a flock regularly visiting Rosny Hill.